Transforming Central Florida into a Premier Biking and Walking Community! 
Healthy Central Florida helped hopeful nonprofits get inspired last month as part of its Health Innovation Grant Workshop where ten organizations will be granted $2,500 for projects and initiatives that aim to make the Eatonville, Maitland and Winter Park area the healthiest in the nation. Four Healthy Central Florida’s main […]
LOCAL AND STATE ADVOCACY FEDERAL NEWS by Carolyn Szczepanski Let’s face it: Bike advocates have it tough. Winning our goal of safer streets is a game played in multiple arenas, where different teams must come together and share in the ultimate victory — or defeat. Sure, bicycling may be a simple […]
Operation Best Foot Forward is about changing behaviors of both drivers and walkers. Look no further than the story that ran on WKMG about Orlando Police Department (OPD) and Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) June’s “crosswalk crackdown.” Here was a man who received a $164 citation for failing to yield at […]
Orlando Police Department and Orange County Sheriff’s Office ramp up crosswalk violations with Operation Best Foot Forward as Orange County students begin summer break To keep roads safe for more than 191,000 Orange County children starting summer break, the Orlando Police Department (OPD) and Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) will […]
On May 25, an article was posted in the Wall Street Journal (Taxing for Highways, Paying for Bike Lanes) regarding raising the gas tax. The author, Mac Zimmerman, policy director at Americans for Prosperity, discusses ways to get additional money when the Highway Trust Fund runs out and suggests that […]